Fictional sleuth Wolfe

The answer

NERO

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NERO answer page.

Used 37 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NERO

Every other clue in this collection answered by NERO, most used first.

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• Infamous Roman emperor - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Infamous emperor - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
• Sleuth Wolfe - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• Fiddling emperor - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Detective Wolfe - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• "I, Claudius" role - used 39 times, most recently in 2024
• Emperor after Claudius - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Notorious Roman emperor - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Infamous fiddler - used 33 times, most recently in 2022
• Roman fiddler - used 32 times, most recently in 2021
• Roman tyrant - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• "Quo Vadis" emperor - used 30 times, most recently in 2020

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• Fictional lab assistant - IGOR, used 28 times

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